Close Encounters
Documentary
Most accounts of UFO sightings can be explained by and attributed to normal earthly phenomena. Those that cannot be solved, however, have police investigators, government officials and researchers puzzled, even decades later in some cases. In each episode of "Close Encounters," two stories of alien phenomena around the world are investigated, re-created and reviewed by researchers. In the telling of each one, the program reveals to viewers facts about thousands of reported occurrences.
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Close Encounters Crop Circles & Boomerang
A Canadian farmer sees five identical bun-shaped objects; thousands report seeing a large triangular-shaped object for a 3-year period over New York's Hudson Valley.
6:00 PM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters Terror on the Ranch
A triangular craft beelines toward a husband and his pregnant wife; a disc-shaped craft emits a solid beam of light that releases a blast of flame.
6:30 PM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters Schools Out and Christmas Lights
Students in Australia witness a saucer-shaped object touch down; a man's car and cell phone stop working when a cigar-shaped object passes overhead.
2:00 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters Blind Date and Flying House
A teen views a mushroom-shaped object that leaves a glowing ring on the ground; police officers witness a large triangular object.
2:30 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters Triangles in the Forest and High Tide
Soldiers encounter a luminous triangular-shaped craft in an English field; witnesses report a metallic object hovering over water.
3:00 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters Nuclear Reaction and Ghost Rocket
A silent, orange football-shaped object is spotted over Loring Air Force Base in Maine; a Swedish farmer witnesses a crash into a lake.
3:30 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters British Invasion; School Daze
A British Air Force officer is stunned when a cylindrical object sends a beam of light toward him; school children witness multiple UFO sightings over a three-day period.
4:00 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters Aliens in the Swamp
In Ohio, two officers see a bizarre bright light flying in the night sky, Police dispatch advises them to follow the object, triggering a huge car chase; An ex-Military outdoorsmen tries to communicate with a UFO in the Florida Everglades.
4:30 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters Fire in the Sky
A surge of sightings in Colares, Brazil in 1977 causes major panic and thousands of people leave the island as a result; On a dairy farm in Australia, a mysterious flying object causes a brutal headache for the farmer.
5:00 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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Close Encounters Nuclear Nightmare
Officials have to decide how to confront a large, unidentified object hovering over one of America's most secure Air Force bases; a priest communicates with four beings on a saucer-shaped metallic craft in Papua, New Guinea.
5:30 AM on T+E Totally Entertaining
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